You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
JACK LONDONA man with a club is a law-maker.
More Jack London Quotes
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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